I was little disappointed to find out that the electronics shop had no appropriate capacitors lying around. I had been hoping I could avoid assembling by hand, or buying the fiddly little bastards. Oh well, I can only hope this doesn’t set me back too far. It looks like the plate capacitors are actually pretty…

This is the secondary coil for my Tesla coil. It consists of roughly 1000 turns of 24 gauge magnet wire. It was made by the University of Victoria machine shop. They did a better job than I could have ever hoped for. The trick was spending about an hour setting up a jigger to…

This weekend I spend most of my time working on the primary coil for the Tesla coil. I was very surprised that I actually managed to get this done. It is made from copper piping and a hacked up cutting board. I found it surprisingly fun figuring out the best way of assembling this. Though…

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